The first Teddy Fay thriller by New York Times best-selling author Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall, stars one of Stuart's most popular creations, ex-CIA agent turned rogue CIA nemesis Teddy Fay, featuring Stone Barrington!

“Fans are sure to welcome this action-parked...testosterone-fueled thriller.”-Publishers Weekly

A Fool for a Client

A sensational murder trial! A young woman found naked and stabbed to death in her apartment! It's the type of case that should be perfect for Stanley Hastings. Instead, it's his nightmare. The woman was the girlfriend of his boss, Richard Rosenberg, and the hotshot lawyer is charged with killing her!

“A Fool for a Client is one of Hall’s best … Hall handlescomic dialogue as well as any in crime fiction, andwhile Stanley gets the brunt of most of it, he usuallymanages to solve the crime before anyone else.”— Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

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News & Events

I am delighted to announce that I have been chosen to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic convention 2019.

In conjunction with the Malice Domestic Award, I will be presenting MYSTERY MOST EDIBLE, an anthology of culinary mysteries, for which I will be contributing a short story.

Also in time for the convention, Pegasus will publish LIGHTS! CAMERA! PUZZLES!, my 20th Puzzle Lady novel. The story of Cora's life is being made into a major motion picture! At least it will be, unless someone kills the cast and crew.

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New, short standup version, comic payoff and song only. For those who don't want to sit through long setup. You can skip the song too, to save more time. (It's been pointed out not playing it at all would save the most time, but I put that down to jealous malcontents.)

About Parnell Hall

For a man who's written 40 books, Parnell has had a number of other careers. As an actor, he performed in summer stock, regional theatre, and touring companies, as well as appearing in the movies Hercules in New York with Arnold Schwarzenegger and A New Leaf with Elaine May and Walter Matthau. Read more...